The discovery of the Nuragic culture settlement of Sa Osa, Cabras-Oristano, Sardinia, has
made it possible to investigate the domestication status of waterlogged uncharred grape …

Over the last millennia, the land between the Alps and the Mediterranean Sea, characterized
by extraordinary habitat diversity, has seen an outstanding cross-cultural development. For …

Background Tree species represent 20% of the vascular plant species worldwide and they
play a crucial role in the global functioning of the biosphere. The Mediterranean Basin is one …

Abstract During the Bronze and Iron Age, Sardinia was home of one of the most
technologically advanced Mediterranean societies (the Nuragic culture). Given its key …

The identification of archaeological charred grape seeds is a difficult task due to the
alteration of the morphological seeds shape. In archaeobotanical studies, for the correct …

Abstract Knowledge about the vegetation history of Sardinia, the second largest island of the
Mediterranean, is scanty. Here, we present a new sedimentary record covering the past …

A multi-proxy palaeoenvironmental investigation was conducted to reconstruct the Holocene
history of coastal landscape change in the lower Posada coastal plain of eastern Sardinia. In …

In 2008, during a rescue excavation in the Sa Osa area, near the town of Cabras (Sardinia,
Italy), a Nuragic settlement was discovered. The excavation revealed numerous pits, wells …

Multiproxy analysis composed of biostratigraphy and pollen analysis allowed reconstructing
the palaeoecological and palaeoenvironmental evolution of the Tirso river coastal plain in …

The aim of this study is to investigate human-climate-environment interactions in a small
Mediterranean island. Comparison between palynological and palaeoentomological data …